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Jackson Township Police in Stark County, Ohio Briefly Detained Driver After Flock Safety Alert Matched Vehicle to Stale Missing-Juvenile Hot-List Entry
- Occurred
- Mar 1, 2023
- Published
- Apr 15, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In March 2023, Jackson Township police in Ohio briefly detained driver Michael Smith after a Flock Safety license-plate reader matched his vehicle to an NCIC hot-list entry from a missing-juvenile investigation that Cleveland police had closed two weeks earlier. Officers released Smith after confirming the juvenile had already been found. A federal court later held that Flock matched the plate to law-enforcement data but did not create the stale entry.
Developers
- Surveillance technology developers
- Flock Safety
- Automated license plate reader (ALPR) developers
Deployers
- Law enforcement
- Jackson Township Police Department (Stark County, Ohio)
Harmed parties
- Road users
- Motorists
- Michael Smith (Ohio driver)
- Drivers
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Incident involves automated license plate reader system causing wrongful detention due to stale data.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8